Top 4 Douglas McIlroy Quotes

#1. The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,

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#2. Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

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#3. This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

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#4. As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

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